ANNAPOLIS, Md. –– Colgate held the Navy men's basketball team to a season-low field goal percentage in a 69-50 victory by the Raiders (6-10, 2-1 Patriot League) over the Mids (11-5, 4-1), Thursday night at Alumni Hall in Annapolis, Md.

"We had a total breakdown," said Navy head coach Ed DeChellis.  "Offense and defense."

Navy's offense had a slow start to the game as the Mids made just one of their first 12 attempts from the field and in that same span committed five turnovers to fall behind 14-3.  Colgate would open up leads of 20-8 and 24-12 before Navy started to chip away at the deficit.  The Mids were able to close to within four points at 28-24 with 1:32 left before halftime.  However, the Raiders scored the last five points of the frame to take a 33-24 lead into the locker room.

Navy shot 31 percent (9-29) from the field in the first half and Colgate shot 45.2 percent (14-31).  The Raiders also held a 21-18 edge on the glass and a 24-12 lead in points scored in the paint.

Colgate carried the late first-half momentum into the start of the second half as the Raiders began the stanza with a 7-2 run to build a 40-26 lead after less than three minutes of play.  Colgate soon would extend its lead out to 14 points at 40-26.  

Navy pulled a little closer as Patrick Dorsey (Jr., Raleigh, N.C.) scored seven of the team's next 10 points to make the score 49-43.  The Raiders answered with a quick 6-0 and 12-2 run to take a 61-45 lead with just over eight minutes remaining.

The margin would remain at least 12 points over the rest of the game.

Colgate shot 57.1 percent (16-28) from the floor in the second half as the Raiders made 14-20 (70.0%) two-point attempts.  The visitors scored 26 of their 36 second-half points inside of the paint.  Navy made 10 second-half field goals, connected on 34.5 percent of its attempts from the floor and tallied eight points in the paint (20 on the night).  The Mids were 5-19 (26.3%) from two-point range and 5-10 (50%) from three-point land after halftime.

"We didn't execute an offense," said DeChellis.  "We didn't rebound.  We are a really good rebounding team; that's what we pride ourselves on but we were minus 11 (42-31)."

Colgate totaled a 50.8-percent (30-59) shooting effort for the game despite being 3-20 (15%) from three-point range.  Navy ended the game shooting 32.8 percent (19-58) from the field.  

"They (Colgate) are a good three-point shooting team (averaging over 10 made triples a game on the season)," said DeChellis.  "If you had told me they were 3-20 (from three-point range) and we got drilled, I would say, 'no way; we have a chance to win.'  

"We didn't guard.  They got 50 points in the paint."

Helping Colgate to its high field goal percentage was Keegan Records, who was 11-13 from the field in scoring 25 points.

Navy's offense was led by Tyler Nelson (Jr., Monroe, N.C.) and Sean Yoder (Jr., Dublin, Pa.), each of whom scored nine points, Dorsey, who finished with eight points, and the post duo of Richard Njoku (Sr., Washington, D.C.) and Daniel Deaver (Jr., Falls Church, Va.), who each finished with seven points.

Navy will head to Massachusetts this weekend for a Sunday afternoon game at Boston U.